Container and bracket assembly



June 18, 1946. .D. MAPES 2,402,175

- CONTAINER AND BRACKET ASSEMBLY Filed Jan. 14, 1944 6 12 R F J2 L T-INVEIYTOR A TTORNE y Patented June 18, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCECONTAINER AND BRACKET ASSEMBLY Daniel Mapes, West Caldwell, N. J.,assignor to Specialties Development Corporation, Bloomfield, N. J., acorporation of New Jersey Application January 14, 1944, Serial No.518,225

3 Claims. 248-146) struction, durable in use, economica1 in manufacture,easy of assembly, and which lends itself to mass production.

A further object of my invention is to provide a container and bracketassembly which is sewnstructed and arranged to effect a rigid structurewhen the assembly is mounted on a support and to thus preclude anyrelative movements of the parts of the assembly which may be occasionedby vibrations or the like.

Other and further objects of the invention will be obvious upon anunderstanding of the illustrative embodiment about to be described, orwill be indicated in the appended claims, and various advantages notreferred to herein will occur to one skilled in the art upon employmentof the invention in practice.

A prefered embodiment of the invention has been chosen for purposes ofillustration and description and is shown in the accompanying drawing,forming a part of the specification, wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device const-ructed in accordance withone form oi my invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view thereof.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line stance, oxygen forbreathing purposes, or carbon dioxide ior use in connection withextinguishing fires, inflating various devices and other usefulpurposes. The container 5 may comprise a pair of metallic hemisphericalsections, designated, for purposes of description, as a lower or innersection 6 and an upper or outer section I. The sections are securedtogether, for example, by welding, and define an equatorial joint 8about the container. The upper or outer section I, at its apical zoneIt, i provided with one or more spuds or connections 9, for introducingthe medium into the container or discharging it therefrom.

Secured to the outer section I are embracing end portions Ill of aplurality of equatorially spaced elongated bracket members I I havingsubadditional spuds 9 when desired.

. 2 stantially straight opposite end or leg portions l2 caglng the innersection 6 and terminatin in feet 13 adapted to be secured to asupporting means or structure by means of bolts I5 or the like. Theembracing end portions III are curved to conform to the contour of theouter section 1 and welded thereto to effect an integral container andbracket assembly.

It will be noted that the embracing end portions l0 terminate inproximity to the apical zone iii of the outer section 'I thus permittingthe section I to have secured thereto, within said zone,

In mounting the assembly on the supporting means or structure H, theinner sectloni is disposed in engagement with the suriaceoi thesupporting means and the bolts [5 are operated to secure thefeet uponthe surface, whereby the bracket members ll maintain the inner section 6in clamped relation with the surface to render the assembly extremelyrigid when mounted.

While the joint 8 of the container is illustrated as being disposed in aplane transversely bisecting the leg portions 12 and in parallelism withthe adjacent surface f the supporting structure As various changes maybe made in the form,-

construction and arrangement of the parts herein, without departing fromthe spirit and scope 'of the invention and without sacrificing any ofits advantages, it is to be understood that all matter herein is to beinterpreted as illustrative and not in any limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended tocover all the generic and specific features of the invention hereindescribed, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as amatter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim:

1. A gun fire resistive container and bracket assembly, comprising incombination a lightweight spherical shell for a fluid medium under highpressure, and at least three bracket members spaced circumferentiallyabout said shell and substantially equidistantly from each other, saidbracket members having upper portions conforming substantially to thespherical contour of said shell and being welded to said shell at a zoneadjacent the equator of said shell and having lower portions extendingtangentially from said shell at the equator thereof and terminatin in aplane spaced a minimum distance from the lowermost portion of saidshell, said lower portions having means at the lower ends thereofadapted to be secured to a supporting structure,

said lowermost portion of said shell thereby being adjacent andsubstantially in contact with the supporting structure.

2. A gun fire resistive container and bracket assembly, comprising incombination a lightweight spherical shell for a fluid medium under highpressure, and at least three bracket members spaced circumferentiallyabout said shell and substantially equidistantly from each other, saidbracket members having upper portions conforming substantially to thespherical contoul of said shell and being welded to said shell at a zoneadjacent the equator oi said shell and having lower portions extendingtangentially from said shell at the equator thereof and terminating in aplane spaced a minimum distance from the lowermost portion of saidshell, said lower portions having means at the lower ends thereofadapted to be secured to a supporting structure, said lowermost portionof said shell thereby being adjacent and substantially in contact withthe supporting structure, said assembly being con-. structed andarranged so that bending moments produced by the impact of a projectileand/or the recoil efiect of the pressure medium escaping from a hole inthe shell caused by a projectile are of a minimum for the worst possiblehit, and so that the resultant force always acts substantially throughthe center of the shell andv produces bending moments which areapproximately of a 3. A gun fire resistive container and bracketassembly, comprising in combination a lightweight spherical shell for afluid medium under high pressure, and at least three channel-sectionedbracket members spaced circumferentially about said shell andsubstantially equidistantly from each other, said bracket members havingupper portions conforming substantially to the spherical contour of saidshell and being welded to said shell at a zone adjacent the equator ofsaid shell and having lower portions extending downwardly from saidshell and being tangentially disposed to said shell at the equatorthereof and terminating in a plane spaced a minimum distance from thelowermost portion of said shell,

said lower portions having feet at the lower ends thereof adapted tobesecured to a supporting structure, said lowermost portion of said shellthereby being adjacent and substantially in contact with the supportingstructure, said assembly being constructed and arranged so that bending1 moments produced by the impact of a projectile and/or the recoilefiect of the pressuremedium escaping from a hole in the shell caused bya projectile are of a minimum for the worst possible hit from anydirection, so that the resultant force always acts substantially throughthe center of the shell and produces bending. moments which areapproximately of a minimum, and so that the area of the weld is such asto prevent tear outs of portions of the shell at the weld when the shellis struck by a projectile.

- DANIEL MAPES.

